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Date Posted: 11:54:16 02/20/04 Fri
Author: nojdw - 25 Nov 2003
Subject: Paramahansa Yogananda on Sex, Morality and it's relationship to spiritual advancement

Paramahansa Yogananda:

"The sense-enslaved man does not own, or control his mind; so he cannot concentrate on the Aum-God as the Holy Ghost or Cosmic Vibratory Sound. The yogi with a disciplined and interiorized mind is able to offer it to the Lord; none other is able to make that offering."

Bhagavad Gita, translation and commentary by Paramahansa Yogananda, Chapter 15, Verse11, pg.941.

"By constant self-indulgence, the ordinary person remains sense-ensnared. He finds himself limited to enjoyments connected only with the surface of the flesh. This sense pleasure yeilds a fleeting happiness, but shuts off the manifaestation of the subtle, more pure and lasting enjoyments-the taste of silent blessedness and the innumerable blissful perceptions that appear whebever the yogi's conscsiousness is turned froom the outer sensory world to the inner the inner cosmos of Spirit."

Bhagavad Gita, translation and commentary by Paramahansa Yogananda, Chapter 1, Verse 2, pg. 51.

"The ordinary man indulges in the transitory pleasures of bodily sensations and fleeting thought-forms, thereby exposing himself to countless subsequent miseries. But a man of Self-realization, being one with the Cosmic Consciousness of his Maker, beholds the human body and mind as delusive thought-forms that provide the soul with a means to experience the Lord's cosmic chiaroscuro."

Bhagavad Gita, translation and commentary by Paramahansa Yogananda, Chapter 15, Verse11, pg.932.

"Ordinary individuals, entering into their nature made bodies, are tossed about on the waves of sensory pleasures, ignorant of the vast ocean of spirit existing beneath them. But the yogi, reaching the final state of emancipation, beholds the ever existing changeless (hence unborn) invisible Ocean of God, existing unaffected in It's ever-mutating visible cosmic waves of vibratory Nature, stirred by Its Self made storm of delusion."

Bhagavad Gita, translation and commentary by Paramahansa Yogananda, Chapter 4, Verse 6, pg.438

"The ordinary man is absorbed in sensations, which reach him through the sensitive leaves of the spinal tree."

Bhagavad Gita, translation and commentary by Paramahansa Yogananda, Chapter 15, Verse11, pg.930.

"Those of unabated zeal, who ignore sense temptations and who continually practice yoga in a humble spirit, behold the Lord as the Indweller. But men who merely read scriptures as a hope of emancipation, who do not try to follow the moral rules, and who practice yoga methods without deep interest and devotion will not receive the spiritual benefits they expect."

Bhagavad Gita, translation and commentary by Paramahansa Yogananda, Chapter 15, Verse11, pg.940.

"Settling into ruts of of material habits and sense pleasures causes forgetfulness of God and loss of desire to seek the unending ever-increasing happiness of the true nature of the soul felt in meditation. Mental peace and happiness are forfeited when sensory passions displace soul perceptions. Can they be considered as other than fools who drown theirs souls' inimitable happiness in mires of sensory enslavement, indulged in against the warnings of reason and conscience?"

Bhagavad Gita, translation and commentary by Paramahansa Yogananda, Chapter 1, Verse 2, pg. 52.

"Under the Ego regime, Prince Promiscuity lives in unbridled passion. The bodily kingdom is kept constantly excited and restless with morbid impulses of sex temptation. The insatiable lust imparted to the thought-citizens make them sense slaves, subject to moodiness, depression, irritability; the cellular inhabitants suffer debility, ill health, and premature old age and death."

Bhagavad Gita, translation and commentary by Paramahansa Yogananda, Chapter 1, Verse 1, pg. 27.

"The bravest of prophets dare to intrude their often unwelcome voices into the realm of this natural instinct to remind of the scriptural injunctions against promiscuity, adultery, aberrant behavior--indulgences the modern world calls "free love." Slavery to sex is seldom based on love, and it is never "free."

Bhagavad Gita, translation and commentary by Paramahansa Yogananda, Chapter 1, Verse 1, pg.29.

"Morality, like a chameleon, tends to take on the color of the circumambient society; but the inscrutable laws of Nature, through which God upholds His creation, are ever unaltered by man's determinations. The simple fact is, man enslaves himself in bonds of karmic fetters whenever he transgresses any sacred code of nature; and then when suffering results, he woefully cries, "Why me, Lord? ...Thus yoga teaches why man, Nature's highest achievement, should have respect for her sacred mode of procreation, and, correspondingly, why it should not be abused."

Bhagavad Gita, translation and commentary by Paramahansa Yogananda, Chapter 1, Verse 1, pg.29.

"The sex impulse is the single most physically magnetic power that pulls the life and consciousness down from Spirit in the higher centers in the brain, out though the coccygeal center into matter and body consciousness. The beginner in yoga meditation experiences all too definitely how grounded he is by the stubborn attachments of his life and energy to the body, sometimes without realizing that it is his uncontrolled thoughts and acts of sex that are primarily responsible for his earthbound condition. The seeker after self-realization is therefore urged by yoga to take command of this rebel force: married couples should practice moderation, with love and friendship predominating: the unmarried should abide by the pure laws of celibacy-in thought as well as act."

Bhagavad Gita, translation and commentary by Paramahansa Yogananda, Chapter 1, Verse 1, pg.28

""Mankind in general thus remains reveling in the leaves of sensations of the bodily garden, without understanding it's origin in God. But yogis are able to reclaim the lost Eden by withdrawing their minds not only from the touch sensation of sex but also from all other tactual contacts, and from the sensations of sight, hearing, smell, and taste. Such yogis ascend the inverted tree of the nervous system, life force, and consciousness to reach the paradise of Cosmic Consciousness."

Bhagavad Gita, translation and commentary by Paramahansa Yogananda, Chapter 15, Verse11, pg.932.

"God said: 'Do not try to have physical sex experience, lest you die' (lose your present consciousness of immortality.)

Bhagavad Gita, translation and commentary by Paramahansa Yogananda, Chapter 15, Verse11, pg.930.

"The technique of salvation is eightfold, as outlined by Patanjali. Emancipation is attained by strict adherence to prescribed scriptural rules of conduct and by progressing through the various stages of yoga, as follows:

(1) Yama, moral conduct: non-injury to others, truthfulness, nonstealing, continence, and noncovetousness.

(2) Niyama: purity of body and mind, contentment in all circumstances, self-discipline, self-study (contemplation), and devotion to God and guru.

(3) Asana: right posture; the spinal column must be held straight, and the body firm in a comfortable position for meditation.

(4) Pranayama: life-force (prana) control.

(5) Pratyahara: the power of interiorzing one's mind by disconnecting it from the sense-telephones, switching of at will the messages from the nerve currents.

(6) Dharana: meditation in which the devotee is able to fasten his interiorized mind on the Aum sound, the primal manifestation of God. (The sense-enslaved man does not own, or control his mind; so he cannot concentrate on the Aum-God as the Holy Ghost or Cosmic Vibratory Sound. The yogi with a disciplined and interiorized mind is able to offer it to the Lord; none other is able to make that offering.)

(7) Dhyana: cosmic consciousness; endless spherical expansion of blissful awareness; perception of God as the Cosmic Aum reverberating throughout the whole of the Universe.

(8) Samadhi: oneness of the individualized soul and the Cosmic Spirit.

Bhagavad Gita, translation and commentary by Paramahansa Yogananda, Chapter 15, Verse 11, pg.940.

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